The General Assembly will have at least 16 judicial vacancies – including three circuit judgeships from Fairfax County – to fill during the 2010 session. Most of the vacancies will be created by retirement, many of them because a judge ...

An FBI warning last month that American law firms are frequently the targets of financial and business espionage is no surprise to computer security experts such as Sharon D. Nelson of Sensei Enterprises Inc. in Fairfax. Major corporations tend to ...

A Miami jury has awarded $10 million to a small Virginia-based telecommunications company that contended that Del Monte Fresh Produce used its proposals to save money without paying for them. Under the verdict returned last month in a Florida circuit ...

As trial lawyers can attest, the use of visuals to complement a case can be a godsend. Whether it’s a simple chart or a complex animation, visuals help jurors understand a case. In alternative dispute resolution, visuals can have the ...

Walter E. Beverly Walter Egbert Beverly, a retired insurance executive and attorney, died Nov. 17 of bile duct cancer at his home in Alexandria. He was 83. A native of Rocky Mount, Mr. Beverly was the son of the editor ...

ALEXANDRIA (AP) The state of Virginia wants to make sure that if you learn to be a yoga instructor, you are familiar with the Half Moon, the Sleeping Vishnu and the Upward Facing Dog. But three yoga instructors filed a ...

Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell on Thursday tapped two top members of his staff when he was attorney general to fill key positions in his administration. He named Martin L. Kent, who was his chief counsel in the AG’s office, to be ...

LEESBURG—The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors has reversed an unpopular ban on public displays – including Christmas decorations – in front of the county courthouse. A board-appointed citizens’ committee had passed the ban last week. The committee said it was ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE—The restaurant smoking ban that took effect Tuesday across Virginia is a healthy development in a state that has revered tobacco since Jamestown’s settlers began raising it 400 years ago, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said. In a statewide victory lap ...